Isn’t it the prettiest bridge ever? Looks like grouting has to wait until tomorrow when Dimitry and Jon can team up again. In the mean time you should take full advantage of this gorgeous day and walk down to the beavers. It’s definitely worth seeing.
Life is becoming beaver-busy again for Worth A Dam. I will give a short phone interview today for a freelance reporter that wants to write about the bridge project. Next week I will be presenting to the Moraga Rotary club at St Mary’s College and talking about the investment Martinez made in its beavers, and illustrating how that’s paid off for the city and the habitat. Moraga is a small, wealthy town with some lovely creeks and the massive upper San Leandro Reservoir, so its a good place to preach the beaver gospel. Interestingly, it is the former employer of our current city manager, who wanted to start an RDA there as well but was forcefully re-educated. We’ll see what Martinez teaches him.
The week after that I have a interview scheduled with a New York watershed reporter who wants to do a story on beavers and beaver management. I had written her months ago trying to persuade her on the benefits of beavers in the habitat when she wrote some rather ungracious words about our beaver friend Mike Callahan. Turns out she was intrigued. She is repositioning herself as editor of the Watershed Post and feels that a story on beavers is probably a good way to start. Okay then.
The next weekend Worth A Dam will meet with our new wikipedia friend who is turning out to be a crackerjack researcher on historic beaver prevalence. He recently got interested in idea of “place names” in california with the word beaver. Might that mean that was a historic trapping area? I pointed out amusedly that there was a “Beaver Street” in Kings Beach, Tahoe. (Where they were happily killing them because “they weren’t native”, which is kinda what got us started with this whole project in the first place.) Well he contacted the historical society of Kings Beach to learn about the name, and the woman he spoke to said, that’s interesting, because my daughter discovered a beaver colony in Lexington Reservoir! Turns out she’s the mother in law of Mercury Freedom, the man who took the amazing photos of beavers in Los Gatos!
Small beaver world. But you knew that already right?
Ahhh okay, where am I. Then its April, with a second conference call for the nine and John Muir Birthday-Earth day on April 17th. The following day is a Dow watershed event that we are supposed to be at as well. Then its Wild Birds Unlimited on mother’s day and Friends of Marsh Creek which should take us to June when the Martinez Beavers will be the second monthly lecture for Close to Home’s “It’s all connected” ecological seminar series. Some where in here I think I have traded favors with a beaver friend whose involved with the preschool at the near by catholic school and will be doing the beaver dance with some perky three year olds in exchange for some leads about the history of beaver legislation in California.
Then its August and the 3rd annual Beaver Festival. Ack!!!!!!
